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Security Vulnerability

How to crash Google Chrome

September 4, 2008

Google claims that its browser Google Chrome is able to isolate events that may crash a browser, isolated within those individual tabs. However, an issue exists with how Google Chrome handles undefined handlers in chrome.dll version 0.2.149.27 which is the latest version of the browser. A crash can result without any user interaction.
When a user [...]

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TIBCO Rendezvous RVD Daemon Remote Memory Leak DoS

December 25, 2007

The TIBCO Rendezvous RVD daemon is vulnerable to a memory leak, which when remotely triggered, prevents any further RV communication until the daemon is manually restarted.
Vulnerability Type / Importance: Remote DoS / High
Workaround: There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability
The RV daemon (RVD) within TIBCO’s Rendezvous messaging product is responsible for the communication of [...]

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